Rainy Day Crafting: Groovy Rainbow Fruit Salad Tree
This is the way most of our craft projects start… Luca says something like “mom… what if there were purple banana trees?”. We never seem to be organized enough to actually plan out craft projects in advance, so we just go with it when inspiration hits. Many times we don’t get much father than paper and crayons… but this time I just happened to glancing over at a pile of cardboard to go out with our recycling just as Luca was saying the words “purple banana tree”. Eureka!
We had a lot of fun cutting, painting, gluing and raiding our random craft supplies. Pretty soon our purple banana tree turned into a “work in progress” rainbow fruit salad tree. Luca has big plans to add lemons, apples and pigeons (?) to the other sides of our tree in the coming weeks. I may have to throw in a butterfly or two… just because. We’ll keep you posted on our progress. Our tree has already been called into service as a prop for Luca’s current favorite game “monkey circus”, and comes in handy for our imaginary restaurant where sparkly bananas are always on the menu.
Not only was this project fun and satisfyingly messy…. we got to talking about our favorite foods that grow on trees (and also animals who call trees home). I love how projects like these always spark curiosity and conversation.
That is so cool…hours of enjoyment!!
Cheap fun! Although I did sustain a small glue gun injury.
What fun! We love the idea and just may try it ourselves one of these rainy days..
Hey Tori — you guys have to come over for some sparkly bananas. It’s been too long!
Sounds and looks like such a fun (and colourful!) project!
Color makes us so happy, especially on a rainy day. A little glitter doesn’t hurt either.
What a great idea!! My son would love this, we’ll definitely do this soon.
We had so much fun. Picasso had his “blue period”, I sense that Luca and I are entering our “rainbow collage” period. We keep looking for more things to glue tissue paper to.
Aaawwww… looks like a lot of fun!!
What a co-incidence! My son loves purple colour too. This recycling project sounds real fun!
I am having crafts envy specially after seeing all those neat boxes of supplies! It really amazes me how my unruly boys become so compliant and interested when we do arts/crafts. We will try bananas…not sure if we can pull off a tree…
What a fabulous craft idea! It’s especially great because many people have the supplies already lying around their house. Great video! And Luca is so adorable.
Lovely! With the long Wisconsin winter ahead of us, and my oldest now old enough to wield some scissors and a gluestick, I’ll have to get into some creative crafting.
And I couldn’t help but notice your lovely wire tiered fruit stand – gorgeous!
Stacie is a master! I am working on a craft project with Ria and will post soon but it is no where as cool as Stacie’s